Over the past two decades, carbon nanomaterials have attracted great interest for their
confirmed friction and wear performances as well as important tribological applications. This …

Superlubricity, a fantastic lubrication sate where friction or resistance to sliding nearly
vanishes, has become one of the most important approaches to combat friction-induced …

Elastic properties of materials are an important factor in their integration in applications.
Chemical vapor deposited (CVD) monolayer semiconductors are proposed as key …

Monolayer two-dimensional (2D) crystals exhibit a host of intriguing properties, but the most
exciting applications may come from stacking them into multilayer structures. Interlayer and …

A common misconception is that the irradiation of solids with energetic electrons and ions
has exclusively detrimental effects on the properties of target materials. In addition to the …

The physics of sliding friction is gaining impulse from nanoscale and mesoscale
experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling. This Colloquium reviews some recent …

Friction and wear are two main causes of mechanical energy dissipation and component
failure, especially in micro/nanomechanical systems with large surface-to-volume ratios. In …

Irradiating solids with energetic particles is usually thought to introduce disorder, normally
an undesirable phenomenon. But recent experiments on electron or ion irradiation of …

Carbon aerogels are elastic, mechanically robust and fatigue resistant and are known for
their promising applications in the fields of soft robotics, pressure sensors etc. However …

The weak interlayer binding in two-dimensional layered materials such as graphite gives
rise to poorly understood low-friction characteristics. Accurate measurements of the …